Found 53 people
First Name Last Name Bio Gender Occupation Bornsort descending Died
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Edward

McKnight Kauffer

E.

Male Artist, Book Illustrator 1890 1954
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Willa

Muir

Willa Muir, née Wilhelmina Johnston Anderson, was called Minnie as a child and sometimes published under the name Agnes Neill Scott.

Female Translator, Writer 1890 Mar 13th 1970 May 22nd
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Charles

Prentice

Charles Harold Curtis Prentice was an influential British publisher who worked for Chatto & Windus from 1914-1935, where he replaced Percy Spalding as a senior

Male Publisher 1891 Nov 4th 1949 Jun 30th
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Rebecca

West

Rebecca West was born Cicely Isabel Fairfield in 1892.

Female Critic, Journalist, Writer 1892 Dec 21st 1983 Mar 15th
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Vita

Sackville-West

Victoria [Vita] Mary Sackville-West, poet, novelist, and horticultural journalist, was born on 9th March 1892 at Knole, near Sevenoaks, and died on 2nd June 1962 at Sissinghurst.

Female Translator, Writer 1892 Mar 9th 1962 Jun 2nd
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Barrington

Gates

Sidney Barrington “Barry” Gates was a scientist, an artist, a father and a friend. During his lifetime he wrote over 150 journal articles in the aerodynamic field, multiple collections of poetry, short plays, and contributed to various magazines as a book critic.

Male Aviation Consultant, Scientist 1893 1973
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Frank

Prewett

Canadian war poet Frank James Prewett (nicknamed “Toronto”) was born August 24, 1893 near Mt. Forest, Ontario on his maternal grandfather’s farm. This son of Arthur H.

Writer 1893 Feb 24th 1962 Feb 16th
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Maria

Jolas

Maria Jolas (née McDonald) grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, with a “traditional liberal Jeffersonian southern upbringing” in a “large family, neither rich nor poor.”[1] After attending boarding school in New York, she left the United Sta

Female Editor, Translator, Writer 1893 Jan 12th 1987 Mar 4th
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John

Rodker

John Rodker was born in Manchester on 18th December 1894. The son of Jewish immigrants originating from Poland, his family moved from Manchester to London when he was six years old.

Male 1894 Dec 18th 1955 Oct 6th
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Robert

Graves

Robert von Ranke Graves (1895–1985) was a poet, lecturer and novelist born in Wimbledon on July 24th 1895 to Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931) and Amalie Elizabeth Sophie (1857–1951).

Male Academic, Critic, Poet, Publisher, Writer 1895 1985
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Margaret

Miller

Margaret Stevenson Miller was born in 1896 and was not only a scholar, but also one of the pioneers for the fight against legislation preventing married women from retaining their jobs. Miller attended Edinburgh University, where she received her Masters degree and Bachelor’s of commerce.

Female Academic, Activist, Writer 1896 1978 Mar 4th
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Kingsley

Martin

Basil Kingsley Martin, editor of the New Statesman and Nation from 1931-1960, advocated the idea that a free press which promotes information literacy is one of the most important traits of democratic society.

Male Editor, Journalist 1897 Jul 28th 1969 Feb 16th
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Storer

Lunt

Storer Boardman Lunt was born on July 8th, 1897 in Portland, Maine. Lunt lived a relatively quiet and modest personal life. At the age of 21, he briefly joined the army in World War I in field artillery.

Male Press Worker, Publisher 1897 Jul 8th 1977 Sep 10th
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Fredegond

Shove

Fredegond Shove (née Maitland) was born at Downing College, Cambridge in 1889.

Female Poet, Writer 1899 1949 Sep
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E. M.

Delafield

Although best known for Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930), and its humorous portrait of a harassed, self-deprecating housewife, Delafield wore many other hats in her relatively short but busy life.

Female Biographer, Critic, Journalist, Novelist, Travel Writer 19 June 1890 11 December 1943
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Frances

Partridge

Frances Partridge (née Marshall) attended the progressive school Bedales where she became a good friend of Julia Strachey (whose biography she would later write).  After graduating from Newnham College, Cambridge University, in

Female Translator, Writer 1900 Mar 15th 2004 Feb 5th
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Charles

Davies

Charles Davies was a Welsh-born writer, poet, and lecturer. He was born in 1901 in Penclawdd, Glamorganshire. He began his studies at the University College, Aberystwyth.

Male Academic, Writer 1901 1953
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Francesca

Allinson

Francesca Allinson (known as Fresca) was born Enid Ellen Pulvermacher Allinson in 1902.  She was the fifth child of early whole foods advocate Dr T.R.

Female Writer 1902 Aug 20th 1945 Apr 7th
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John

Banting

John Banting was born in London in 1902.  His father was a teacher and a bookbinder.  Banting trained as a painter with Bernard Meninsky in London and at the free academies in Paris.  As a young artist, he was influenced by Vorticism and later turned to Surrealism.  His studio was in Fitzroy Squa

Male Artist, Book Illustrator 1902 May 12th 1972 Jan 30th
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William

Plomer

Born to English parents in Pietersburg, South Africa on 10 December 1903, William Plomer would find early success with his novel Turbott Wolfe

Male Editor, Novelist, Writer 1903 Dec 10th 1973 Sep 20th

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